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Arnold, Matthew, 266

Art Deco style, 115, 121, 158, 174, 212, 214, 255

artwork, 158, 174, 205, 214, 328

of United States, 246, 249–50, 251, 253, 255, 257, 259, 268, 270, 295, 308, 357

see also murals; sculpture

asbestos, 158, 248, 249, 357–58

“Aspects of Large Passenger Liner Design” (Bates), 208

Astor, Ava, 38

Astor, Brooke Russell, 295 n, 348

Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn, 37–38

Astor, John Jacob, I, 38

Astor, John Jacob, IV, 37, 38, 46–47, 247

Astor, Madeleine Force, 38

Astor, Minnie, 295

Astor, Vincent, 47, 89, 114, 247

death of, 348

FDR’s friendship with, 155

Titanic disaster and, 37–38, 47, 291

United States Lines and, 127, 128, 154, 197, 206, 215, 217, 221, 291, 294, 348

United States’ maiden voyage and, 295

United States’ trials and, 264, 266

Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines, 132–33

Atlantic Ocean, 173, 214, 251, 292, 299, 316, 328, 339, 340, 361, 366, 367

see also Blue Riband of the Atlantic; North Atlantic; South Atlantic

atomic bomb, 198, 226

Audubon Society, 365

Augusta, USS, 331

Australia, 367

automobiles, 326, 341, 342

Babcock & Wilcox, 138–39, 231

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 28, 194

Bachman, Walter, 202, 209, 210, 226, 263, 264, 308

E. Kaplan’s relationship with, 232

on Gibbs, 321, 322

Bahamas, 154, 249

Balfour, Arthur, 24

ballast tanks, 201–2

Ballin, Albert, 9, 18, 24, 39

superliners and, 50–51, 62, 69, 70, 73

ballrooms, 158

United States, 235, 248, 252, 270, 300, 303, 304, 308–9, 323, 360, 369

banks, banking, 21–22, 33, 60

Barbara Moran, 298

Barlow, Lester, 98

Barlow v. McIntyre, 98

Barnum and Bailey’s, 337

Barrett, Frederick, 44

bars, 158

of United States, 250, 252, 253, 265, 300, 357

Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, 240

Barton, Leslie, 324

Baruch, Bernard, 180

Bates, James L., 199, 208–9

Design IV and, 195, 196, 203, 208–9, 210

Bates, Sir Percy, 150, 151, 213

Bath Iron Works, 146, 186

bathrooms, 258, 295, 329, 357

battleship-carrier-cruiser combination, 179

battleship-destroyer, Soviet request for, 147

battleships, 14, 18–19, 55, 107, 142, 225

Arizona, 55, 141

British, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, 29, 107, 225

Bauer, Gustav, 209

Belgium, 11, 24

Benham -class destroyers, 146

Benny, Jack, 323

Berengaria, 97, 114, 115, 116, 122, 154, 273

Berle, Milton, 313

Bethesda Naval Hospital, 225

Bethlehem shipyard, 139

Big Ship, see Design 12201; United States, SS

Bishop Rock lighthouse, 136, 137, 307, 309, 318

Bismarck, 51, 69, 73, 81

Bismarck, Otto, 265, 274, 277, 293, 300–301

Black, Hugo, 155

Black, James, 312

Blewett, William, 221, 266–67, 268, 308

Blohm & Voss, 73–74

Blue Riband of the Atlantic, x, 6–7, 8, 11–12, 69, 88, 92, 119–23

Cunard and, 7 n, 11–12, 26–27, 30–33, 39, 116, 120, 122, 149, 152, 206, 307

French Line and, 122

Germany and, 12, 28, 89, 116, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 209

Italy and, 135, 136, 137

Normandie and, 137, 152, 159

Queen Mary and, 149, 152, 159, 209

United States and, 148, 205–6, 225, 269, 281–82, 291, 294, 309–10, 313, 337, 346, 356

Board of Trade, British, 40, 41, 52

Boat Train, 310, 328

boiler rooms, boilers, 120, 138, 141, 144, 171, 203

of Leviathan, 81

of Olympic, 43–44

of United States, 231, 293

bombing, bombs, 60, 260

atomic, 198, 226

in World War II, 165, 167, 198, 204, 213, 225

Bon Voyage! (movie), 323

Boston, Mass., 8, 17, 18, 63, 174

Boston Navy Yard, 87, 124

bottle smashers, 182–83

Bowen, Harold, 141–46, 148

Brando, Marlon, 323, 327–28

Braynard, Frank, 178, 341

Bremen, 9, 97, 209

Bremen, 116, 120–26, 136, 140, 200

Nazism and, 153, 164

Bremerhaven, 164–65, 213, 348

Brennan, John, 288, 292

bridge, United States, 285, 293–94, 297, 299, 300, 312, 318, 323, 360, 369

Alessandrelli on, 305–6

conga line on, 309

Queen Mary’ s bridge compared to, 260

trials and, 264, 266, 267, 268, 271

Brinnin, John Malcolm, 120, 345, 346–47

Britannia, 8, 31

Britannic, 53

British Reparations Board, 81

Britten, Sir Edgar, 149, 152

Broad Street Club, 203–6, 215

Bromsgrove Guild, 149–50

Brooklyn Navy Yard, 64

Buckles, Paul K., 244–45

Buermann, Thomas, 196, 200, 201, 202, 249

bulbous bows, 57, 58, 120, 126, 149, 200

Burghley, Lord, 149

Burke, Edmund, 314

“cabin liners,” 157

cabins, 8, 31, 152

United States, 246, 255–58, 295, 357

Caccavale, Susan, 232, 322, 366

Calamai, Piero, 332–33

California, 160, 171, 342–43, 351, 352

Cambridge, Mass., 18–21, 37

see also Harvard

Campania, 3 n

Camp Meade, Md., 65–67

Canada, 8, 22

Canadian Pacific Railway, 109

Cannon House Office Building, 183

cargo, 52, 53, 96, 336, 356, 358

smaller engines and, 125, 141, 203

cargo vessels, 170–72, 197, 198, 212, 336

Caribbean, 106, 139, 163, 349, 354

Carnival Miracle, 361

Carpathia, 40–42

Cassier’s, 13

cavitation, 55, 233

celebrities, 89, 135, 152, 161, 167, 213

crew and, 275, 276, 327–29

United States and, 252, 253, 255, 288–89, 295–296, 299, 308, 309, 313, 322–23, 326–32

Celtic, 16

Chamberlain Hotel, 245–46

champagne, 5, 10, 151, 245, 308, 309

Chandris Line, 349

Chapman, Paul Wadsworth, 117–18, 123, 124, 127, 128

Charles, Sir James, 114

Cherbourg, 90, 120

Chicago, Ill., 255, 302

Christy, Howard Chandler, 89

Churchill, Winston, 204, 211, 213, 218, 236, 311

City of New York, 11

City of Paris, 11

City of Pretoria, 111

Civil War, U.S., 10 n

Clamchowder Jack, 265, 268

“clean sweep,” 271, 313

Clermont, 7

Cleveland, Frances, 3–4, 5, 241

Cleveland, Grover, 3–6

Clipper planes, 159

clippers, 5, 7, 122

clubs, 101, 102, 340

coal, 52, 54, 60, 79, 81, 97, 171

Coast Guard, U.S., 130, 265, 293

Cochrane, Edward L., 184, 188, 211, 266, 269, 282, 283, 296

Maritime Administration and, 229, 236, 264

Cochrane, Mrs. Edward L., 245

Cold War, 198, 244, 281

Collins, Edward Knight, 8–9

Collins Line, 8–9

“Collision Vindicates Safety Measures” (Gibbs), 111–12

color, 140, 205

for United States, 247, 251, 252–59

Columbia, 35

Columbia Law School, 35, 48–49, 144

Commerce Department, U.S., 229, 281, 348

communism, 219, 244

compartmentalization, 201, 220, 362

Compass Points, 231

Congress, U.S., 9, 11, 39, 44, 84, 155, 187, 280, 354, 358

Gibbs’s testimony to, 82, 184–88

Land’s testimony to, 173

Leviathan visit and, 71–72

Morro Castle disaster investigated by, 133, 134

Panamanian registry and, 162

Prohibition repealed by, 154

war declared by, 63

Warren’s report to, 224, 228

see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Conifer, 265